NO player truly enjoys pre-season training but it’s a lap at the other end of the year they fear running the most.

With just one round left in the regular competition, there are precisely 129 players who have played first grade this season but failed to cross the white stripe.

For eight teams, their men are just 80 minutes away from the dreaded nudie run.

Some have only played one or two games in the top grade so may be spared. Others don’t have that excuse.

Certain teams are known to count the tries scored in reserve grade or the NYC to get some of their players off the duck.

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For the eight teams involved in the finals, their men live to fight another day.

The Roosters are one of those sides and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is one of those players.

The enforcer did the dreaded run last season after failing to score and with time running short for him to add his name to the try scorers list in 2017, it’s something the prop admits to thinking about quite regularly.

Camera IconJared Waerea-Hargreaves makes a break to set up a try.Picture: News Corp Australia

“It’s pretty hard not to think about it when you get reminded every day from all the outside backs,” Waerea-Hargreaves told foxsports.com.au.

“Robbo gets into it and all the guys that score the tries — Ferguson, Latrell — they get into us boys in the middle.

“There’s only about three of us boys in the middle who have scored all year. I’m going to blame Jason Taylor because he’s our attacking coach.”

When it comes to the nudie run, generally it’s the forwards who’ll cop it.